
In typical hobbyist fashion, I spent multiple years' (and perhaps more than a decade's) worth of Google One subscriptions on some new toys to tinker with. But once my sibling mentioned that their free Google Photos account was getting full and I learned of the abhorrent subscription cost, I jumped into the deep end. I was always interested in setting up a home server, but I never got around to it because of the cost. I'd rather have my files and photos on my own computers, rather than Google's.

I personally never really liked this, since accessing files in the cloud usually takes longer with slow internet speeds, and also because of the privacy implications.

Nowadays, a lot of our own data is stored in the cloud, which is just another way of saying someone else's computer.
